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Timothy Kopra

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AMERICAN RETIRED
Career
Time in space
244 d 1 h
Spacewalks
3
12 h 31 m outside
Flights
2
2 landings
Status
Retired
Nationality
American
Born
09 Apr 1963
First flight
15 Jul 2009
Most recent flight
15 Dec 2015
Type
Government
Biography

Timothy Lennart "Tim" Kopra is an engineer, a Colonel in the United States Army and a retired NASA astronaut. He served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 20, returning to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission on September 11, 2009. He returned to the ISS for the second time in December 2015, as part of Expedition 46 and as the Commander of 47.

Flight log

Flights

2 TOTAL
No.FlightDate
02Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-19M15 Dec 2015
01Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-12715 Jul 2009
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Source The Space Devs — Launch Library 2 Last checked 29 Sept 2026
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